"You are no greater than what you believe."

“It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (2000). “Song of the Sirens”, p.37, Sheridan House, Inc.

“Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.”

“those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.”

“We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.”

Source : PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. April 23, 2001.

“Wile E. Coyote is a coyote with nothing but good intentions. But Road Runner comes along and is unattainable, he wants it and can't get it, and thus he becomes a villain that is impossible to be around. Bill O'Reilly is a villain that is so in love with himself and the sound of his voice that he's literally become the personification of evil.”

“Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.2, Harvard University Press

“Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereup on he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'”

“The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.”